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Episode 59. Intersectionality and How It Influences The Experiences and Resources of Minority Female Founders
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Episode Highlight: On this episode of the "Embracing Only" podcast, we delve into the topic of intersectionality and how it impacts the experiences and resources of female founders and professionals in the workspace. To have that conversation, we incited Janine Vanessa Heinrich, a fervent advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in entrepreneurship.
Recognizing inequities, she champions initiatives for underrepresented founders and speaks on important (yet still overlooked) topics, such as standing in your power and lived experience as a woman of color, defining value-based goals to live by, avoiding and recovering from burnout, and redefining success and failure in the modern workspace.
Key Discussion Points:
03:23 Janine’s Thesis on Intersectionality: How intersectionality influences the experiences and resources of female minority founders.
08:28 Crafting a Captivating Pitch And Securing Funding: How female entrepreneurs of color can make their pitches stand out and find the right investor for their startup.
19:12 Preventing Burnout: Defining what thriving means to you as “an only” and making the necessary changes to see it happening.
27:23 Overcoming Systemic Barriers and The "Just Do It" Mindset: How can minorities, especially women of color, do this in a way that protects our energy, our values, and our ability to thrive?
34:39 Shifting Our Perspective around Failure: Defining what you consider a “failure” and shifting that perspective in order to learn from it and live a more fulfilling life.
40:04 Getting Comfortable with Discomfort: Moving through discomfort to get to where you want to be while also understanding where your physical limits lie–and Janine’s advice to help you thrive in 2024.
In Summary: Janine illustrates the intricacies of intersectionality and how it impacts minorities in entrepreneurship as well as corporate spaces. She invites us to reflect on it and encourages female minority founders and professionals to better understand what “success” and “failure” might look like for them, so they can forge a path that takes them to where they truly want to go.
Resources from this episode:
Janine’s Podcast: https://www.ontheupandup.io/
Janine’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janine-vanessa/
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